Saturday, 30 May 2009

This is an idea for a puzzle that i could have printed out and sent to companies as a piece of promotional media, and perhaps it could be packaged in somethign interesting as well- like a jar from the Piano and the Boy story, so then the image and packaging could both act as teasers to the full story. Scroll down to see the puzzle.

Thursday, 21 May 2009

I was fortunate to be approached by the Spaghetti people to do the cover for next months issue of the Student Union magazine. Its thematically based on the exam period so i've illustrated a student in stressing out in front of a huge text book to revise from. She's got all the answers up her arms, because thats what kids used to do at our school, hide everything up their sleeves!

Saturday, 16 May 2009

unfortunately i didnt get time to complete this brief in time but it was a good exercise and practice for me, especially considering the time restraints form when i started it, it pushed me to work faster and try any achieve shortcut methods offor example dropping colour. the characters that ideigned can be taken on elsewhere and it has actually been very useful because i have a few ideas for postcards, business cards and badges that incorporate the fairy character.

Thursday, 14 May 2009

I opened up the new copy of Kerrang! magazine this morning to see a familiar drawing weyyyy! Although its says 'Milal', everyone loves a typo! Its the 2nd piece of illustration i've had published in their mag in the last year :) all good exposure!

This is my final design for the Fairy Bessie-Belle. I decided to keep the colours of her outfit simple but eye catching and i think this colour shceme works pretty well. I have also put a kind of fade out effect on the wings to give to some more visual interest rather than them being the same flat green througout.

I may consider using this illustration in designs for badges, postcard and perhaps as a small spot illustration on a business card.

Wednesday, 13 May 2009

This is an idea for a puzzle that i could have printed out and sent to companies as a piece of promotional media, and perhaps it could be packaged in somethign interesting as well- like a jar from the Piano and the Boy story, so then the image and packaging could both act as teasers to the full story. Scroll down to see the puzzle.

This is the first page i have one for the freddie story, i wanted to use serong perspective to increase the impact of the image and also focus the viewer on the fairy. To make the fairy look more precious, i will design the first spread in a way that slowly unveils the fairy, so the viewer only gets to see the fairy fully on the second spread (3rd page).

I will add colour to this, especially considering it is a Julia Donaldson story it needs to have that naive and simplistic in-your-face aesthetic as well.

this is a design for freddie, he is impersonating a dog to help the fairy understand what he is saying. i may keep this design, if i have the time i may re draw him in a different pose or change his expression to give more indication of what kind of character he is.

Friday, 8 May 2009

This is my sketch for the Fairy Bessie Belle, i will add colour to it eventually to bring it alive a little. It was important to the story that the fairy looks a little confused and uncertain as she keeps mishearing Freddies wishes and hence conjuring up the wrong things